skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just the taxes/rent/COL. I know three Canadian SWEs whose parents could have easily bought them a nice house or condo in any major Canadian city, if they had wanted to stay.

One of them explained it to me this way: the quality of employers, coworkers, and the overall software engineering work you'll do in Canada just doesn't compare to the US. Even if pay/finances were exactly the same, going to the US would still be the better career choice, because that's what everyone with talent and ambition does. The people who stay behind aren't people you want to work with, if you can help it.
I view this as more similar to energystar in the us, where I can see efficiency of appliances. Or mandatory fuel economy labeling.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25905829, which was posted earlier and has the more substantive article.
Because there are very few software/IT companies in Canada (or Europe or almost anywhere else except China) with revenues like US software/IT giants.

So software engineers tend to work in supporting roles / costs center departments in other industries (finance, manufacturing, logistics) or do non-scalable work such as contracting or small/medium-enterprise front-end/back-end dev.
I have been using Firefox as my daily driver for years and have yet to come across a single one of these "only works on Chrome" web sites that the author mentions.

This entire paragraph is complete bullshit:

> The larger problem, though, is that it's not at all clear that Firefox will remain a viable alternative to Chrome. Its market share has been falling for years, and not everybody is pleased with the directions that the Mozilla Foundation has taken. The creators of web sites have responded by not caring about Firefox; having to retry broken web sites in Chrome is a ritual that many Firefox users have had to get used to. It's not surprising that users give up and just run Chrome from the outset.

Firefox is a great browser, and is getting better with every new version. Differences in standards compliance, JS implementation and even rendering is negligible between modern Chrome and Firefox. Mozilla is probably the only major entity challenging Google's dominance over web standards today, with even Microsoft having folded. I don't know where the author is coming from, but to me there is zero reason to use Chrome or Chromium over Firefox.
Podcast – Let's face it head on and talk about Apple certificates and profiles
mRNA vaccines can be developed in 2 days;
You should submit your website as its own on HN :)
I would actually compare DigitalOcean to a Facebook or a Google or an Instagram. You’re banned or blocked and cannot reach a human to find out why or what can be done. DO support is just a bunch of auto mailers sending the same template emails, in my experience.
Most of the machinery both industrial and in home are now computer controlled. Things like furnaces, CNC machining centers and lathes.
> Which is probably why we have stagnated on new, radical ideas or at least they are not nearly enough getting awareness.

We don't need new radical ideas. Almost nothing in IT has been new for the past 30 year (Exception - Blockchain)

We do prioritise badly. We don't acknowledged real problems. We do consistently pour dev money into scam technologies. We do run around in circles pretending we haven't been here before (like the article mentions)

It's the same as any industry. Like quack medicine, and real medicine which is mostly wrong. But IT should have the ability fix itself at a faster rate.
Having travelled to many different cities that have many different styles of public transport, I can very confidently say the cities of the world are firmly divided into two camps on this topic. One where you don’t talk to other people on the bus/train because you never know who’s going to turn out to be a violent drug addled lunatic, and another where you don’t talk to people on the bus/train because it’s impolite.

There is literally no city in the world where people are interested in the social experience of public transport.
Women entering workforce did raised standard for a lot of them. The domestic violence and abuse rates against women are down by a lot. And yes, they go up and down with female employment too, employment affects how she can manage her status in family, how much is husband resentful over her being at home and crucially, how much she is locked. (I don't know male abuse stats and the whole topic is less talked about)

> opioid epidemic, obesity epidemic

Alcohol consumption is down against 1971. The heroin, cocain etc problems are smaller then they used to be. People are less violent overall.

People still live longer. And while they are obese, their life expectancy went up against that time. And some of it is that historical diseases from various malnutritions are down.

Economic standards are dropping for new graduates. But, it is not all bleak everything is worst situation.
This comment was originally a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25913083, but because the article it links to is clearly the more informative one, we merged that thread into this submission. Thanks for pointing that out!
Agreed! I said from the start - I'm not claiming that this is how reality works. I'm just pointing out that it is self-consistent and that it does solve the paradox.

I myself can't entirely believe this notion of a fully deterministic universe. Especially one that doesn't even involve randomness (though randomness by itself wouldn't bring in any possibility of choice).
Yes. Chromium and AOSP are remains of the time when Google cared about Open Source.

Today's Google just wants to be done with it.
> “We can predict failures. You don’t have to write alert rules any more.”

If AI monitoring tools can predict potential failures before they happen based on existing rules and events - then they have value but writing the alert rules defines what you're interested in - what is and is not an acceptable error.
>very permissive 2-BSD, there's nothing to say OpnSense couldn't relicense to a proprietary license per the above.

Only the copyright holder can re-license a copyrighted work. Re-licensing is not the same as sub-licensing. Under copyright law, the copyright holder is granted certain exclusive rights over their work. If the license grants sub-licensing, a licensee can pass on some or all of the rights in the license to a third party.

The license terms for a sub-license must be consistent with the original license terms, although not necessarily the same. The sub-licensor can use different words as in the original license, but they cannot override the terms and conditions that are required by that license. The sub-licensor cannot sub-license more rights than have been granted by the original license.

The BSD 2-clause does not allow sub-licensing. Works released under this license can be included in a larger work with a more restrictive license or modifications can be put under such a restrictive license, but the original license must remain intact.
5G is more of the same telecom monster complex design, but open RANs and open packet core designs are a good step forward.

Also: you know your network has lost its mind when there are 20 extra headers on an IP packet.
If you guys liked Halt and Catch Fire, I'd also like to recommend:

- Pirates of Silicon Valley (this largely follows Gates and Jobs): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/

- Micro Men (this is about the British tech scene in the 80s): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n5b92 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1459467/
This comment was originally posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25913083, where the article was more of a corporate press release. We merged that thread hither.
After getting excited about Firefox Quantum and starting to use it for a while as my primary browser, I was very disappointed when they started switching back to the "shared" memory model, even from the "hybrid" architecture they used before.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/07/safely-reviving-shared-mem...

Without fail, that made Firefox perform exactly as it used to before the Quantum transition - memory leaks galore, tabs hanging, videos slowing down to a crawl for a few seconds, and other nice stuff like that.

I wish they wouldn't have gone back to sharing memory between tabs/processes.

Chrome has always had the right idea, both performance and security wise - keep all processes isolated! The fact that this uses more memory, although something many like to nitpick about Chrome, is only a secondary issue compared to performance and security.
I really don't see how the chatops approach highlighted in the blog post changes anything. It seems that they're typing a command in Slack, and this triggers a pipeline. Which is something I've been wanting to introduce for our team.

Our UAT environment is deployed with fixed versions, and is only updated either after a sprint, or when the business wants to test new features. Generally this is done by someone from the business asking to deploy a new version, and then a developer manually triggering this process. I see no reason as to why the business wouldn't just be able to do this through Slack, and not have developer act as a middleman.
Can we use a freeze ray to shoot a laser at the water, knocking off some electrons, thus slowing down the excitation of the water atoms, thereby freezing it?
Thank you! I will definitely take that bit of data along to the eye doctor, it makes good sense.
(as a downvoter) Distributed transactions don't scale, they are NOT efficient. You can't co-partition data in Cockroachdb, so the only way is the slow way. Interleaved-data don't count.
Yes, Tarsnap is really quite expensive if you have data that doesn’t get deduplicated well.
How can I be sure that my paper ballot receipt that I’m holding matches the ballot that was actually submitted?
That very same wiki. The very next sentence after Daniel Ellsberg quote: "In 2013, information released as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request confirmed that a single switch out of four (not six) prevented detonation."
> (For specific numbers and comparisons, see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6656201/ )

The study was done in Singapore and Malaysia. It looks like an interesting study to do in different regions of the world. e.g Western Europe where it is notably cloudier than Singapore.
Can you clarify what you're implying here? It's almost like you believe that not having a standing army makes a country's people pursue extreme artistic outlets.
ah I failed you. I'm still trying to improve that landing page.

Essentially my taget audience is who own a domain and need to receive email to that domain.

The service is a way to forward email of your domain to your personal email. Example your-name@domain.com to your-name@gmail.com

At first I target technical/developer since these group usually own many domains.

I'm going to have to think about how to improve and make this clear.

Thanks for very valuable feedback.
> SpaceX absolutely does not follow fcc guidelines. There have been numerous occasions, including changing all their satellites to 550km altitude without getting proper approval where they do it and ask for forgiveness later.

No. You have been misinformed, they have always asked for the authorization first. For the orbit modification to 550km, they asked on 2018-11-08, were granted permission on 2019-04-26, and started launching a month after that. [0][1]

[0]: https://fcc.report/IBFS/SAT-MOD-20181108-00083
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Launches
You might also occasionally mistype ssh as shs or so?
I was wondering about that, maybe they're trying to avoid any kind of copyright claim? Even though the images would fall under fair use.
> If I have one NOC for all of my services and they’re chasing their tail trying to figure out root causes and who is responsible for each service… you have a management problem.

Is it inconcievable to the author that buying software may be easier than fixing a management problem, at least in the short term.
Unfortunately this is one of those vanity projects, considering that Apple got a very good repairability score. It's likely a mean to get extra money under the table for assessing the score that could be then used in marketing. I am not saying this is actually happening, but in my opinion it looks like designed for this purpose and it has nothing to do with helping consumers.
But the person I replied to didn't talk about overall safety per mile/per plane, they talked about which company has been in the news more for accidents.
I felt that the audio added a nice atmosphere
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One factor is less opportunities also means less competing offers. Having solid competing offers can boost your initial offer by another 33%.

On the next job switch you can now use that higher salary and get another set of competing offers. Since it's not an option in Canada there's not a lot of upward pressure on compensation.

In my limited experience the top tier employers are very strict with their regional market assessment. When I started to negotiate above that range with a FANG Canada they converted my offer to SF Bay Area. The difference has everything to do with market assessments and nothing to do with cost of living.
I know this isn't the point of your post, but is blockchain all that new? Distributed ledgers already existed in the 90s, pretty close to your 30 year cutoff.
Nope. You pretty much have it covered. Hydrogen was very appealing when battery and hydrogen storage both needed significant development, but batteries have come a long way while hydrogen storage hasn't moved much, if at all.
From 'View From a Height', by Isaac Asimov:

"And just as an organism in the embryonic stages seems to race through the aeons of evolutionary development, from single cell to ultimate complexity, in mere weeks or months; so the individual scientist in the course of their life repeats the history of science and loses themselves, by progressive stages, in the orchard [of science]."
The Toad Strain
It's a shame this trade is dying. Electronic repairs is such a fun job, but most new equipment is designed as disposable.
That's what I said, he pulled exactly the same stunt in 2016 claiming massive vote fraud.
It's very hard to miss the most actively traded option of the day.
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Toast UI Chart 4.0 is released
You should read HN posts from the past where @patio recommended that tarsnap should raise prices even more.
A complex organism uses the DNA to its full potential. For example, some genes are regulated by a large number of enhancers, which results a combinatorial complexity. That is, you don't need a large number of regulators for your system. Instead, there's just a handful, but they're mixed and matched to create thousands of combinations. Alternative splicing and post-translational modifications contribute to complexity as well, as you can create hundreds of thousands of protein variants with relatively few genes. And not to forget that genome is highly dynamic: there're constant rearrangements, which allow producing complex patterns of gene expression.
Chinese TikTok rival Kuaishou could raise over $5B in Hong Kong IPO
The dust I encountered there was child's play compared to the playa @ BRC, at least the Bombay Beach region I spent some time in. It wasn't even worse than the average desert dust levels I deal with regularly in the high desert around JT, which are a far cry from BRC playa.

There's just more moisture/humidity in general around the Salton Sea, that goes a long way towards keeping dust clumpy and on the ground.

BRC is next level misery in this department. I attended once in 2012 and left with my first ever sinus infection, that took a month to clear, and for at least a year afterwards every time I got a cold or otherwise congested (which newly became common) my snot would taste of playa dust. It's fucking awful. I'm convinced the dust in BRC dust storms shorten life expectancy of those breathing it.

If you're lucky enough to attend BRC after a recent good rain, then it's a much better situation. But that's moot; the same is true for Salton Sea or any desert region. The Salton Sea enjoys the advantage of a persistent local moisture reservoir, for now. The nearby agriculture responsible for the effluent sustaining the Salton Sea also humidifies the air.
I've had a number of refunds from Amazon (UK) where I've been told I can keep the item.

The best one was preordering a Vinyl copy of an album. It arrived... and was a CD. I contacted support, they sent out the record again. It was a CD. This happened twice more, and eventually the support person called me and said they'd de-listed it due to stock issues, and that I could keep all four of the CD copies that I didn't want if I liked!
Just look at this inane spam from the netgate moderators[0]. Post at Oct 27, 2017, 12:04 AM by ivor

Obviously the company policy is "We just sell stuff, leave us alone.". That's why they "invest millions" in patches which are not yet ready for upstream.

[0] https://forum.netgate.com/topic/121969/where-is-the-pfsense-...
Y'all are getting help from your governments?
Building back greener post-Covid-19
this is absolutely not a dropbox replacement,
this is a script that uploads your files to a cloud shared storage

dropbox client does so many more things (including compression,delta uploads,filehandle watch, incremental backup and so on)

i mean its fine if thats what you want,but that is not a backup solution by any means
Sounds very like what dn42 does now. That's how I started with bgp... Then got my own v6 and then v4 space and ended up on the real internet. Dn42 defiantly helped in learning. This is cool that it's been around that long!
Finally someone seems to have done this right. Subscribed now, lets see how it goes!
If you're interested, I recommend these two papers:
1. https://people.inf.ethz.ch/asingla/papers/hotnets20-inorbit....
2. https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08979

This is actively being worked on in the research community, excited to see if it comes to fruition.
> when people commonly put up cartoons in the machine room showing a floating-point adder as a snake in a birdbath.

I really want to see this, can't find it by googling though. Maybe you know where to find it?
Reminds me of this comment, which gave me a good chuckle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23534048
> The most mind-boggling thing about development IMO is the fact that it works at all, let alone so reliably.

That's why so many people don't accept the evolutionary theory. It's just hard to think on evolutionary timescales, there's no difference for most of us between 1 million, 10 million or 1 billion years. Nevertheless, it took billions of years for life to evolve.
Finally this explains to me how my friend has felt for the last decade.

He can't in good conscience reproduce, knowing that he will almost certainly die in the food riots to come. Obviously, he says he cannot "time the market", but it seems clear only small remnants of humanity will be left once we hit a tipping point where food costs exceed our remaining energy stores. When that happens, discussions of Cold war era "first strikes" will be revived by those who hold the nukes.

The coming collapse of modern civilization has been talked about since before we were born. Everyone just laughs as those original predictors grew old and died, thinking the predictors were wrong, when in reality we're just incapable of dealing with future risks of this magnitude and long timeline.

We are watching a crash happen that spans longer than a human lifespan, therefore most of us are unable to even comprehend the danger. Maybe 1% of us see it. I should be carving this in stone for future historians to dig up, not write it in a server that will be certainly destroyed.

Sadly other than reducing his footprint and not reproducing, pretty much all my friend has is weed and short term distractions to keep him alive and sane. He says he's sorry he's not smart enough to know how to save humanity, just smart enough to know we're doomed.

He says he would just take the early exit and reduce his footprint further, but there's too much joy in the lives of his loved ones to hurt them that way. They wouldn't understand, they don't see it yet, or think the world burning is prophesied and can't be altered. So he's trapped, but he can distract himself sufficiently well and toke when he cannot.

I'm truly sad for my friend, and sad for all of us.
Sure, it can be simple.

To give you a less clear example, think about writing a library that sends telemetry to some cloud service. The telemetry could be readings from a sensor attached to a microcontroller with 512K of RAM or it could be readings from a server sitting in a datacenter with 256GB of RAM.

You need some helper library to handle the protocol and there's a really nice full-featured library that comes with a bunch of handy debugging tools but it's too memory-hungry for that tiny microcontroller.

Another option is a minimalist library that uses very little memory but also has less flexibility in say TLS.

If you pick just one, one of your platforms ends up suffering needlessly.

Adding the options allows the user to decide what's best for them.
Tell HN: Someone seems to be trying to make people more fearful through YouTube
I run https://next-episode.net (a TV tracking service).

As part of my maintenance routine and on a daily basis - I look for newly released trailers for the most popular upcoming shows.

A weird pattern I noticed through the years are rogue YouTube channels like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-VJ2EpzBRQMJYLO1fV1X3g/vid...

(I've stumbled upon 5-6 channels EXACTLY like this one - same channel and video naming pattern, approximately the same number of videos, just for different shows)

Check out 2-3 random trailers. Notice anything out of place?

Each and every one of these seemingly innocent TV show trailers have a short video stitched before the actual trailer (and sometimes after as well).

These stitched videos are always scary news reports about people being attacked, robbed or murdered.

The choice of shows to upload trailers for seems random at first, but if you look closer - those are all relatively obscure and niche shows with fairly small following.

To me - it looks like it's a concerted effort by some entity to try and raise (certain?) peoples fears?

I'm not sure who or why would be doing this, but I thought it might be a good idea to expose this here for some discussion and further investigation?
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I had to look up the guy that actually designed it, and I realized they have pretty much made all the intro cinematics I adore from TV shows.

Westworld, American Gods, Man in the High Castle and Halt and Catch Fire.

https://www.artofthetitle.com/designer/raoul-marks/

https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/halt-and-catch-fire/
I think that such level of benefit of doubt is irrational and disproportionate. It prevents people to talk and think rationally/objectively about what was said and done, because they twist logic into pretzels just to make it all feel good.
how deep does this deploy queue get? And does everything that lands on master have to first be deployed?

This seems like a bit tough for getting work done if you have enough people all waiting around for this
Toyota forges ahead with 8.25m vehicle goal despite chip crunch
amazon connect is a turn key solution for this.

I dont know where your from, but in my EU country all the mobile phone companies also provides services like this, maybe not with a web interface but direct to phones/apps.
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Recent and related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25908084
https://pidtuner.com
Challenge! =)